Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 08:55:11 -0400
Reply-To: thetrans <thetrans@INAME.COM>
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From: thetrans <thetrans@INAME.COM>
Subject: Re: Syncro manual transmission oil fill point
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Thanks Mon!
From where I was crawling around last night I didn't "discover" the drain
plug until like 11:00 PM!! I gotta get me some ramps or something to get
this bugger up higher!! (What does everyone else use who isn't lucky enough
to have a hydraulic lift??).
Damn such a logical spot for the drain plug {grin}.
Thanks, and feeling like a mechanical newbie (though it has been years
since I got mechanically intimate with a vehicle!!).
At 02:29 AM 5/12/98 -0400, Modl6971 wrote:
>In a message dated 98-05-11 20:11:09 EDT, thetrans@iname.com writes:
>
><< found what I believe to be the drain/or fill hole near the shift
> selector. Its an inverted nut thingee that I need a like 17mm bolt socket
> to remove, right? I know I ain't gots no allen wrench that big [grin]!
>
> Is that bolt what I'd use to both drain the manual transmission AND fill
> it? For drain, it seems high, and for fill it seems low. Either way its a
> bitch to get to!!
>
> The Bentley's has a decent man transmission diagaram but is weak on
> poiunting out the plugs. I've only found one for the manual, making me
> think that one bolt is for both fill and drain.
>
> Also looks like I have an oil leak near the oil pump somewhere. Its making
> my rear skid plate wet with oil. Tough to see where exactly but thats what
> it looks like.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Bill
>
> "Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you
> look at it right"
>
> Hunter/Garcia >>
>
> Ok Hunter, your rear trans has a drain hole and a fill hole. The one that's
>by the shift selector is your fill hole, the one on the bottom of the
trans is
>the drain hole. Drain the fluid, put the drain plug back on (requires a 17mm
>allen wrech), fill the trans with some good synthectic gear oil, fill
until it
>runs out, put the drain plug back on. The same service is required for the
>front differential also, same layout, one drain hole on the bottom, and one
>fill hole on the side, fill until it runs out. Hope this helps, Michael M. 87
>syncro.
>
"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you
look at it right"
Hunter/Garcia
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